5 Responses to How to fix the Southern Baptist Denomination

Well I cant speak about the SBC, because I wouldn’t know the specific problems they are facing. But I will say that denominationalism in general is in rapid decline in predominantly Protestant countries. And I do think that that root cause of this is the weak ecclesiology introduced at the Reformation. That’s a general observation on evangelicalism. I’m not sure whether this pertains to the SBC, but it might.

I hear this and yet our little SBC church is experiencing some growth and progress. Maybe it’s just too big and too celebrity driven to get blessed. There is such a huge superstructure for funding missions and other cooperative program stuff that it sometimes seems the purpose of the local church is to feed the monster ($$$). Don’t tell anybody I said this though.

Have to admit our state convention has in fact invested in us a few times, in particular a Transformational Church retreat and a Sunday School outreach seminar.The local association is doing a great job leading us to address our inner city issues here. The size of the national work is just too unwieldy. Hopefully giving more power to local associations and smaller state conventions to run “the show” is the future. Get bigger by getting smaller. But there is power and position that must be surrendered.